Re: ISO/IEC DIS 8652 and ISO/IEC DIS 14519-1

[Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>]

[Tucker Taft]

|   In general, ISO standards that make references to other standards
|   implicitly refer to the latest revision of those standards --
|   here are words from the standard ISO "Normative References" prologue:
|   
|      "All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements
|       based on this International Standard are encouraged to investigate
|       the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards
|       indicated below."
|   
|   Presuming 1003.5 has similar wording, there should be no problem
|   using the Ada 9X standard in conjunction with 1003.5.
|   Upward compatibility allows essentially all Ada 83 bindings to
|   be used with Ada 9X.

I'll recommend a comment that such a clause should be added to the standard
before it is published, possibly updating the reference to point to the new
edition of ISO 8652 (if available in time), or to remove the edition-
specific notation for the existing reference.  these are merely editorial
changes, and should have no impact on its adoption or the speed thereof.

#<Erik>
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